Nerdiest Obsession: Museums, Muppets, Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons and History  Oh, and weather and Depeche Mode and horses...

Wastes too much time on: deviantArt.com

Favourite female nerd: Abbess Heloise, Aphra Behn, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey

Favourite male nerd: Dr. Bunsen Honeydew (The Muppet Show), Albert Einstein, Graham Young (the palaeontologist, not the murderer) and Brian May

Secretly collects: Toys and Depeche Mode covers, but it’s no secret

Wanted to be ______ when you grew up:  palaeontologist or zoologist - damn that inability to do math

Biggest nerdy triumph:  my MA in Interpretive Studies, but a close second would be seeing my name scroll up on the big screen when Star Wars: Revelations had its premier in Baltimore.

Hates with a fiery passion: lentils and Brussels sprouts and willful ignorance

Nerdy line that makes you swoon: “Intellectual accessibility”

Top 5 sites visited daily: deviantart.com, facebook.com, gmail.com, fashion-era.com, theweathernetwork.ca

Top 5 things everyone should check out ASAP: I try not to tell people what to do. BUT, everyone should watch season 1 of Look Around You, available on YouTube.  And my new favourite webcomic: Hark! A Vagrant.

Books

Fave book(s): The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chronicles of Narnia, The Phantom Tollbooth, King Death, Small Gods, Good Omens, The Mirror of the Artist, Not Wanted on the Voyage, The Box of Delights, Frankenstein

Fave author(s): Terry Pratchett, Anne Bronte, C.S. Lewis, Neil Gaiman, John Masefield

Most disappointing "based on the novel" film: The Golden Compass was pretty shabby

Most impactful book/author: Maybe it was The Mirror of the Artist

First book you ever read: The Greek Myths (with my mom)

First book that made you really like reading: The Phantom Tollbooth

Currently reading: Street Gang, which is a history of Sesame Street.